Here's What Ellen Pao, The VC Who Sued Kleiner Perkins, Is Up To Now

Before Ellen Pao joined Kleiner Perkins, she worked as a corporate lawyer and business-development executive at startups.Now she’s getting back to her roots, starting with offering advice to startups on Quora, the question-and-answer website where she revealed that Kleiner had fired her.

We’ve heard that Pao is considering trying to raise a fund to invest in startups. Raising her profile on Quora, which is beloved by Silicon Valley insiders, as a startup expert is a smart way to pursue that goal.

Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo recently announced that he wants to expand the site beyond asking and answering questions to become a repository for this kind of specialised knowledge that hasn’t previously been posted on the Internet. So Pao’s contribution fits right in line with the site’s new mission.